{"product_id":"the-radiance-9781668078631","title":"The Radiance","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN 2026 \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e A \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Simply put, a work of genius.\" --Abraham Verghese, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Covenant of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar's most daring work yet--a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBehavior\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e S\u0026amp;s\/Summit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668078631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ayad Akhtar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52933765497013,"sku":"9781668078631","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-radiance-9781668078631","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}